Johnny Depp's Most Eccentric Roles

The most eccentric thing about Sweeney Todd is his wild mane of hair. However, his all-consuming thirst for revenge for the man who sent him to prison is understandable -- even if his means are roundabout and extremely gruesome.

Depp had a dual part in this film, which shot Javier Bardem to stardom (and his first Oscar nomination). Bon Bon is a sexy inmate who likes to dress up like Carmen Miranda, which is decidedly eccentric in a Cuban prison.

We'd rank this vampire higher, but it feels like we've seen Depp trot out all these acting tricks before. As one site rather harshly puts it, "his performance is a collection of his familiar tics in place of a character."

A chameleon named Lars who's forced to invent a new, tough persona after losing his gig as the family pet are ample qualifiers for quirk. Add in the fact that Rango looks and sounds like a Hunter S. Thompson hallucination and this movie ratchets up the list.

In this (justly) little-seen indie, Depp plays a notorious 17th century British Earl, one whose debauches were legendary. He lost part of his nose to syphilis and simply wore a false one to court, along with two canes. Gold for Depp quirk, bronze for the actual movie.

Despite being a ruthless assassin, Sands still has time to indulge in a number of eccentricities, including wearing tacky tourist T-shirts, rigging bullfights to ensure the matador loses, and killing any chef who cooks his favorite dish too perfectly to "restore the balance." Call it killer quirk.

As expected, Depp's Native American is no mere sidekick, but he's definitely an odd fellow. He's resourceful and brave, but he routinely feeds the dead bird on top of his head and even his own tribe considers him strange.

Portraying a version of his good friend Hunter S. Thompson in this psychedelic freakout of a movie, Depp adopted his trademark Hawaiian shirts, cigarette holder, and more unusual appetites. The Vegas trip is so bizarre, it almost makes Duke seem normal, by comparison.

Edward can't help being unusual and scary and a little prickly -- he was just made that way by his eccentric creator. And he inhabits an eccentric world, carved out by Burton in the inseparable duo's first pairing. His pathos and sweetness outshine the makeup, prosthetics, and heaps of topiary.

Depp's interpretation of Hollywood's worst filmmaker ever is fueled by nervous, manic energy. For any other actor, playing a 1950s cross-dresser who directs movies in pumps and an angora sweater would be the height of eccentricity. For Depp, this is relatively restrained.

The role that propelled "Pirates of the Caribbean" to becoming an unlikely box office smash will be Depp's lasting legacy; he's played Sparrow for four films now (with a fifth on the way). The gold teeth (that Depp really had cemented to his own teeth), the hair, the eyeliner, the drunken walk, and slightly gay affectation all made Sparrow unforgettable.

Just the makeup and hair alone would put this version of Lewis Carroll's off-his-rocker tea partier at the top of a list of eccentrics. Pitchfork said he resembled a "deranged mime," while Yahoo thought he was "either channeling Frodo or Madonna." For the role, Depp, of course, researched what a hatmaker who was poisoned by mercury might look like.

Depp managed to be even more wacky than Gene Wilder in this 2005 remake of the beloved classic. His twitchy performance as the reclusive candy inventor was thought to be influenced by Michael Jackson, although Depp himself said it was more "an incredibly stoned George Bush."